The Banting Diet is also known as the LCHF (low carbohydrate high fat) diet.

Banting Recipes and the Banting Diet

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The History of Banting

One of the first registries on low-carbohydrate diets was in 1860 when English casket maker William Banting was prompted to lose weight and decided to write “Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public”, which aimed to completely avoid starch and sugar.

Banting lost 45 pounds in a few weeks (with additional weight loss over several months) on a diet composed by meat (generally mutton or beef – plus poultry and fish), two very small (1 ounce) portions a day of rusk or dry toast, tea (with no sugar or milk), and a 2-4 drinks of dry wine or port a day as spelled out in his own writings.

Thus, the Banting diet became a very well known method during that period of the 19th century, promoted also for weight loss and diabetes control.

The No-carbohydrate Diet

A no-carbohydrate diet (no-carb diet) excludes dietary consumption of all carbohydrates and suggests fat as the main source of energy with sufficient protein. A no-carbohydrate diet is ketogenic, which means it causes the body to go into a state of ketosis, converting dietary fat and body fat into ketone bodies and using them to fuel the entire body and up to 95% of the brain.

The remaining 5% still runs on glucose which is adequately supplied by converting dietary protein via gluconeogenesis or by converting glycerol from the breakdown of fat. It may use mainly animal source foods and may include a high saturated fat intake (though by no means is this a requirement, and indeed is of questionable value from a health-standpoint).